Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-11 | Page 13 | Logan Laying Season Plans

LOGAN LAYING MPLIS Ambitious Scheme for Supervised Super-vised Playground Work Before Be-fore City Commission LOGAN. April 10. Logan is layinj? ambitious plans for its supervised playground work the coming season, according to Mayor William Howell, who states that the immense success of the movement last summer warrants war-rants an extension of the work. A program for the activities of tho com- ' ing summer has been presented to the. city commission by Suporvlsor of Playgrounds Norman Hamilton, and this will doubtless be adopted. Supervisor Su-pervisor Hamilton advises the immediate imme-diate appointment of a directing committee com-mittee to exercise general oversight. Further recommendations Include the establishment of a permanent summer sum-mer camp for boys in Logan canyon, a similar camp for girls and the organisation or-ganisation of baseball teams with a regular playing schedule. It Is expected ex-pected that a part of the city .park will be laid out for playground pur-, poses, equipped with suitable apparatus appara-tus and provided with an outdoor swimming poo) and a field house, Dur- -ing last season, part of the L. D. park surrounding the Cache stake tabernacle tab-ernacle was used for the city playground. play-ground. Vigorous Campaign Planned A vigorous educational campaign Js being planned to acquaint all parents with the value of the supervised playground play-ground movement, according to Mayor Howell. The city will co-operate with tho chamber of commerce and support the playground activities wholeheartedly. Supervisor Hamilton has Just presented pre-sented an official report of, the work for last summer to the city commission. commis-sion. This report shows that classes were organized for all ages from the kindergarten grade to the high school Including such activities as games, swimming, wrestling, basketball, baseball, base-ball, and' football. The average dally attendance at the playground was 157 with a maximum attendance of 275. Canyon trips were conducted as part of the playground work. The report characterizes the summer's sum-mer's activities as follows : "The activities of the playground consisted of free play, dancing, swlmt Imlng, singing, football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, wrestling, gymnasium gymna-sium games, hikes .and canyon trips. A playground baseball team was organized or-ganized and contested with the various va-rious ward teams. The arranging of games, placing of men on the teams ,and all details wre handled by the boys themselves through their captain and manager. . qjass was organized and the boys were given instruction in wrestling which proved to be very popular. Some of the most enjoyable events were the hikes arranged for v Saturdays. Of these the hike up tho canyon, to Spring Hollow and the fishing fish-ing trip to tho Logan river west of town were two of the most pleasant trips of the year. Swimming proved to be the most popular of the playground activities, there being a good attendance attend-ance at all times. Special attention was given to tho boys and girls who were unable to swim with the result that thirty-five girls and fifty-three boys learned to swim at least once across the pool. Canyon Trips "The biggest events of the year were the canyon trips of the playground and the members of the Garden club. Forty-eight girls spent three days at the camp of George Q. Rich, where they engaged in mountain climbing, ball games, etc. The boys, sixty-three In number, went by auto to the fork3 and then hiked to Red Banks, whore camp was established. Chief among the activities was tho hike to White Pino lake on the second day of tho encampment. Of the thirty-six boys starting on this trip three of them' reached their destination and enjoyed a swim In the lake. For those who did not go on the long hike to tho lake, shorter trips were taken to tho nearby peaks. "In order to give the people a better bet-ter knowledge of tho activities of the plaground a demonstration, in the form of a pageant was given by the girls of the dancing classes. A large crowd was In attendance and a very creditable performance was presented. present-ed. The dances were taken from tho regular olass work and wore not gotten got-ten up especially for the demonstration." demonstra-tion." Public Spirited CHIens' Plan The playground work In Logan had its conception in the minds of a few wide-awake public spirited men of the city. Working through the Commercial Commer-cial club a committee of that organization organi-zation was appointed to get the work started. This committee recommended recommend-ed the engaging of a supervisor and the appolntmont, by the city council, of a permanent playground committee to direct the work. Acting upon this 1 recommendation the council appoint-1 cd the following as members of thlsl committee: Coorge Cardon. chairman; Rev. Lewis, Henry Peterson, George R. Hlll.and. Mrs. Ottc. with Norman: Hamilton as suporvlsor and Olga Carl-1 son, assistant supervisor.